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...mostly been amusedly contemptuous of the venture, joshing Billy in editorial cartoons. After Billy's opening-night sermon, his notices improved somewhat. "Hellfire occupies the same discreet place in his theology as it does in most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause to be overnice about Mr. Graham's methods...
...forms signed by students and counter-signed by instructors is absurdly awkward. The forms insure that only "required" textbooks are exempted from the tax. The cost of processing those mounds of paper will surely exceed the revenues which the state would lose without this control. And one can only shudder at the thought of the confusion which will take place at every cash-register at every bookstore in Cambridge when the next semester begins...
...fellow trainees for the Peace Corps "R.C.A." program in Sierra Leone thought that I would be working with computers or television sets before I learned the initials meant ("rural community action")--Carpenters, masons, geologists, an people you read about in books, unreal people, people who can (shudder) do things...
...Little Shudder. Schlesinger believes in the "confusion theory" of history as opposed to the "conspiracy theory." According to Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns, the conspiracy theory holds that "if something happened, somebody planned it." Schlesinger, on the other hand, believes in "the role of chance and contingency, the sheer intricacy of situations, the murk of battle." Schlesinger is also scornful of the "prophetic" historians-Marx, Spengler, Toynbee-who use "one big hypothesis to explain a variety of small things." Says he: "They" have reduced the chaos of history to a single order of explanation, which can infallibly penetrate the mysteries...
...White House tour only reinforced his confusion theory. "Nothing in my recent experience has been more chastening," he wrote, "than the attempt to penetrate into the process of decision. I shudder a little when I think how confidently I have analyzed decisions in the ages of Jackson and Roosevelt, traced influence, assigned motives, evaluated roles, allocated responsibilities and, in short, transformed a disheveled and murky evolution into a tidy and ordered transaction...